Song

A Man Who Was Gonna Die Young

Song

A Man Who Was Gonna Die Young

Though Church can hardly call himself an outsider anymore, there's plenty of heated resentment here. On the title track, he sneers, "We're the bad news/ We're the young guns/ We're the ones that they told you to run from," before getting drowned out by a hail of distortion. He gets nostalgic on "Give Me Back My Hometown," a middle-finger to small-town naysayers, and "Talladega," which chronicles a road trip to NASCAR's hallowed grounds. Other highlights include "Broke Record," "Cold One" and "Devil, Devil (Prelude: Prince of Darkness)," a cinematic look at the record business in Nashville.